The workplace is an extremely social setting. A new job means new people, new norms, and new relationships. Oh, also it requires you to apply that layer of deeply complicated, professional protocol. Plus we slap the consequences of our financial security over the top. It’s a mess. ...

I have two cats. One travels in the car reasonably comfortably, and the other… doesn’t. With poor Woz I always say that only two out of three is a good trip. I’ll let you work out what the three are. ...

I’m not fond of the word “blog”. I don’t know why but it just gives me an ick. But there isn’t a better way to describe what you’re reading right now. It’s a blog. My new blog. Thanks for dropping by. ...

I’ve been meaning to create a new space to post things for a while. I have a lot of thoughts about how software is built and how teams work together. I find myself sharing these thoughts a lot with people in conversation, but I never seem to write them down. ...

As a Melbourne resident and daily commuter on our Myki public transport fare system (no comment), I was intrigued when I heard the dataset for the Melbourne Datathon 2018 was to be large scale, real world Myki usage data. What cool insights can we glean on how our bustling city uses its public transport network? Let’s find out! Best of all, we’ll check it out without transforming it from CSV, or even moving it out of S3. ...